Mark Eckel continues his series on suffering. Visit Part 2 here, or see the series introduction and Part 1 here. Mark has also written about the spiritual discipline of caring for a home here, a good complement to his poignant reflections on displacement in this post.
Quotation
Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. In our current crisis, nearly 30 million children worldwide have been driven from their homes by war and persecution. Media coverage has lately focused on the Syrian dimension of this tragedy. But these 30 million girls and boys are from all over — Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Honduras, El Salvador, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. [1]
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